Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 403: Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 403, in Greek, is one of the books believed in Parker's time to have come from Canterbury and ultimately from Theodore of Tarsus (d. 690), archbishop of Canterbury. It is a typical late fifteenth-century paper copy of the three most commonly studied plays of Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes (wrongly entitled Electra) and Phoenissae, with Palaeologan scholia. It is written by two hands (A: ff. 1-41v; B: ff. 42-118r).
Contents: Hecuba -- Orestes -- Phoenissae

Description

Alternative title	Euripides
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 120
Date created	[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language	Greek, Modern (1453- ); Latin
Material	Paper
Layout	text 22 and 19 lines to a page
Height (mm)	215
Width (mm)	147
Collation	1(10)-12(10).
Writing	in two good hands
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-121 + iii
Research	The MS. was used by Porson for his text of the Hecuba. It is described by Paley, Eurip. III xxxii, and a facsimile of a few lines is given
Additions	At top of f. 1r a small erasure and, in Roman hand of cent. xvi: Liber quondam Theodori Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zm494yr4194/MS_403.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vf175bx8349/403.pdf
Contains	Title Euripides, Hecuba. 1r-30r Author Euripides Note (1r) In red capitals Rubric (1r) ΕὐριπίδουἙκάβη (1r) προλογίζει εί̓δωλον πολυδ́ωρου Incipit (1r) ́̔Ηκω νεκρω̑ν κευθμω̑να, κ.τ.λ. Explicit (30r) στερρ̀α γ̀αρ ἀνάγκη Rubric (30r) Τέλος Note (2r) Scholia begin on f. 2r Title Euripides, Orestes. 30r-72v Author Euripides Rubric (30r) δρα̑μα δέυτερον εὐριπίδους Incipit (30r) Ὀρέστης τ̀ον φόνον του̑ πατρ̀ος μεταπορευόμενος Explicit (30r) καθαρέντι (!) δ̀ε του̑ φόνου ά̓ργους ά̓ρχειν Incipit (30v) Ἡ μ̀εν σκην̀η του̑ δράματος ὑπόκειται ἐν ά̓ργει Explicit (30v) πάντες φαυ̑λοι η̑̓σαν Rubric (30v) Τ̀α του̑ δράματος πρόσωπα (31r) ΕὐριπίδουἨλέκτρα (l. Ὀρέστης) Incipit (31r) Οὐκ έ̓στιν οὐδ̀εν, κ.τ.λ. Note Scholia Incipit (31r) Πάθος ... σ́ωματος τ̀ο τραυ̑μα κὰι ἡ πληγ̀η Note At top of f. 37r in a Western hand, lined through (37r) νεπιος και καλιφρον stultus et insipiens (69r) Similarly on f. 69r are the words βιβλιος and ὀ Θωμας (42r) The second hand begins after l. 490 (42r) ὀργ̀η γ̀αρ ά̔μα Ends Explicit (72v) κὰι μ̀η λήγοις στεφανου̑σα Note Scholia end Explicit (72v) ὁλοσχερω̑ς κὰι τω̑ν μίκτων Title Euripides, Phoenissae. 73r-118r Author Euripides Rubric (73r) Δρα̑μα τρίτον Εὐριπίδους Incipit (73r) Ἐτεοκλη̑ς παραλαβ̀ων τ̀ην τω̑ν Θηβω̑ν βασιλείαν Explicit (73r) τ̀ην δυστυχίαν ἐλεήσας Rubric (73r) Τ̀α του̑ δράματος πρόσωπα (73v) Εὐριπίδου Φοίνισσαι (73v) ̑̓Ω τ̀ην ἐν ά̓στροις Note On f. 82r in the Western hand (82r) ανθρωπος. (homo) βελτιστε. φιλος Ends Explicit (118r) κὰι μ̀η λήγοις στεφανου̑σα Rubric (118r) Τέλος του̑ εὐριπίδου Note Scholia end Explicit (118r) ἀντίχαριν οὐκ έ̓χουσαν Note On f. 118v in the Western hand: anser χήν, cornu πέρας (!) ff. 119r-120v blank
TJames	261
Stanley	Q. 7
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/zx044gq7026
Location	MS 403
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Parker Manuscripts

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